Now in its fifth year, the Blog Poll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at MGoBlog, and now appears on CBS Sportsline. It’s an effort to provide a more rigorous check on the mainstream polls that actually, like, count toward the mythical championship, and enthusiastically shines a light on its voters' biases. But mainly, it’s fun.

This week's ballot is brought to you by Fox News anchor and proud Ole Miss alum Shepard Smith, who reminds readers that the South has already risen, so there's no need to keep chanting about it, a'ight?

As always, the lineup is constructed exclusively on resumé to date, with no regard to predictions, abstract notions of inherent strength or any previous rankings this season; it's only reflective of games played so far.

• Because the facts keep changing. With the exception of a short, solid run with Alabama, I've swapped my No. 1 team on a near-weekly basis for various, usually fairly arbitrary reasons, and I'm back with the SEC after a brief fling with Iowa last week. The Hawkeyes' big strength-of-schedule advantage took a hit with the addition of some relatively dead weight (Indiana) and bad losses by previous victims Iowa State and Michigan, which is on the verge of becoming more of a liability on the Hawkeyes' resumé than an asset. Meanwhile, Florida's schedule improved with the addition of Georgia as a respectable win and the continued resurgence of Tennessee.

The Gators are still holding on to a top-10 win at otherwise undefeated LSU, as well, a problem at the moment for Alabama: No schedule has been hit harder the last few weeks than the Tide's, with the value of their opening win over Virginia Tech plummeting in the wake of two straight Hokie losses, leaving 'Bama with zero wins over a team that hasn't been beaten on at least two other occasions.

• Because quantity still matters. I'm not sure anyone is delivering better quality on the field or on paper right now than Texas, but with Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Missouri all sliding into mediocrity, the 'Horns still haven't done enough in-conference to completely overcome their shameful non-conference slate, highlighted by a win at Wyoming. Iowa may be squeaking out ugly wins by the hair of its chinstrap, but the Hawkeyes do have six wins over "Big Six" conference teams sitting at .500 or better, more than any other team in the country, and have three wins over ranked teams, best among teams with fewer than two losses. If Iowa gets by Ohio State in two weeks en route to 12-0, the sheer number of quality wins on its resumé is going to be hard to ignore, even if they're ugly ones.

• Because quality still matters, too. USC was humiliated on an unprecedented scale at Oregon, but the Trojans' three big road wins at Cal, Ohio State and Notre Dame are still as good a troika as any team has managed this year, and are still worth elevating to me above the very meh skins collected so far by Penn State and Pittsburgh, despite the extra tick in the loss column for SC. Ditto Miami, the only team to beat Georgia Tech and one of the teams (along with Texas) that could really benefit from an Oklahoma rally down the stretch, to boost the value of its win over the Sooners.

The full resumé chart is below the jump, and as always, everything will be completely different next week.

+/–: Average margin of victory; SoS: Strength of schedule (calculated by Jeff Sagarin); Oppt %: Combined winning percentage all opponents.